Monday, March 17, 2008

Earthy Eggs.

Today we made our first batch of hard boiled eggs. We get farm fresh eggs, so they are already beautiful shades of white, brown, blue/green and beige. We hard boiled the eggs in a mix of natural dyes - onion skins, paprika, and ground espresso beans. This gave all of the eggs all a deeper, rich color.

We then drew on each egg with oil pastels and the boys put them into little jars of additional color (vinegar, food coloring, water) for a few minutes before fishing them out with spoons.

It was fun - and we ended up with rich earthy colors, which we all like. We plan to make some using purple cabbage and beet juice this week too - fun!

15 comments:

elisheva-Usually just a dozen for us for lunches/egg salad, and then a dozen for my mom since she loves eggs (and likes getting things the boys made). A and G don't like hard boiled eggs, but love to dye and decorate, so we do it each year just for fun. :)

Brown and light green farm eggs make the most beautifully colored eggs! We found that out last year when we colored eggs in Panama, using freshly collected. Now we look forward to doing the brown ones.

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